[DRE-maint] Bug#670320: ruby-locale: fails to get available locale

[Yannick Roehlly]

Package: ruby-locale
Version: 2.0.5-3
Severity: normal

Hi,

With the update from 2.0.5-2 to 2.0.5-3 I encounter some strange behaviour.
Under KDE, the programmes that use ruby-locale fails. For instance, on irb:

  irb(main):001:0> require 'locale'
  => true
  irb(main):002:0> Locale.current
  => []
  irb(main):003:0> Locale.candidates
  NoMethodError: undefined method `size' for nil:NilClass
          from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/locale.rb:239:in `collect_candidates'
          from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/locale.rb:222:in `candidates'
          from (irb):3
  irb(main):004:0> 

rbbr and apt-listbugs (when launching aptitude after a 'su' instead of a 'su -'
fail in the same way.

The strange thing is that it's not the case when using a different desktop
(e.g. XFCE).  There is no differences in the locale settings.

If I revert to 2.0.5-2, everything works.

The only difference I found between the two versions, except the file location,
is in language.rb:

--- ./locale.old/info/language.rb       2010-02-25 19:03:57.000000000 +0100
+++ ./locale.new/info/language.rb       2012-04-21 15:38:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -74,11 +74,7 @@
 
       # Returns the two or three code.
       def to_s
-        if two_code and two_code.size > 0
-          two_code
-        else
-          three_code
-        end
+        two_code || tree_code
       end
 
       # Returns this object is valid as ISO 639 data.

But even if I replace the file, it still fails.

I'm a little perplex where to look for the bug. If you have and idea...

Regards,

Yannick
 
PS: I left the severity to 'normal' but maybe it should be higher as when
running aptitude after a simple 'su' and having apt-listbugs installed,
aptitude can't install anything as apt-listbugs raises an error.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ruby-locale depends on:
ii  ruby                          4.8
ii  ruby1.8 [ruby-interpreter]    1.8.7.358-2
ii  ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter]  1.9.3.0-2

ruby-locale recommends no packages.

ruby-locale suggests no packages.

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